The first few million years of the Triassic is marked by an absence of coals. This is thought to be related to the mass extinction that happened and the time it took for the recovery of plants.' This ...

Continue reading Woody trees became more common during the Jurassic ... This is normally called the Triassic-Jurassic extinction event as it took place at the boundary between the two periods ...

By the start of the Triassic, all the Earth's landmasses had ... The bottom rung of the food chain was filled with microscopic plants called phytoplankton; two of the major groups still in the ...

This was during the Triassic period. This branch of the tree of life gave rise to various reptiles, including pterosaurs, and ...

The best jaw for hunting fast fish is long and full of sharp teeth. This makes sense to us, but it also makes sense in nature ...

"When a tree dies, it falls. As it decays, fungi grow into it from spores on the ground, decomposing it." Visscher and his colleagues have found elevated levels of fungal remains in Permo-Triassic ...

It lived during the Triassic period (252 million to 201 million ... bakeri fossils, the team also found fossilized plants, bivalves and fossilized poop, called coprolites. The amphibian bones ...

But back in the Triassic, there were scores of them, including armoured ones that ate plants, toothless omnivores that sprinted on their hind legs and apex predators called rauisuchians that were ...